Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-05
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

The east bound atlantic and Paci-
fic express ran into "a bridge at Needles,
Cal, Sunday evening. The engine, bag
gage, mail and9express cars caught fire gand
were totally consumed. Ed Gilbert. brake
man was burned to death: also Two Indians
and one tramp. Engineer Z. J. Hogdon is
not expected to live. E. j. Peppe, mail
agent and j. K. Dickinson were seriously
hurt. DR.. MI. Chase of Galesburg, ILL.,,
was bruised about the head. Very little
express, baggage or mail was saved.
Two men aged so and 60 years were
run over by a Fort Wayne passenger train,
at North Robinson, near Bucyrus. Ohio, on
the Goth nit. They were upon the main
track waiting for freight to pass so that
they could rearch depot and did not hear
the passenger train until it was within IS
feet of the1is, when they sank paralyZed on
90 miles al hour, crushed and man
gled them, causing instant death. @''S4 !
The Indians bring the news to Veto
ria, B. c., that OH unknown bark was
wrecked on the west coast OF Vancouver's
island early this week and AZ of the crew
drowned. a steau,c: was sent to Their.
relief The lighthouse keeper reports
swreckage and lumber coming ashore brand
ed "P. T.
ii Two tiremcn upon g. 50 foot ladder
at the Windsor Folding Bed factory
Chicago, by the breaking Of the ladder
were thrown to the ground and terribly
crushed. They had gone up with hose to
q fourth story window. The damage By
fro was $25, Coo .=.-#s. il al = 80
At Londonville, Ohio, March I, at
the crossing Of the Fort Wayne road, a
passenger train running forty miles an hour
struck a wagon driven by the son of g
wealthy farmer, killing the Young man q d
the horses instantly. 7' .'t-.ss'&'
Nine business buildings burned at
Nebraska City, Neb., on the 24th, with a
loss Of $500 0, Insurance $4,000 Ten fire
men were caught under 6 falling wall and
one, at least, ia ally injured. 49,. 81 -...
Mrs. Logan has selected the center
Of the circle of the north end of
South Park at Chicago, for burial place
of herself and Gen. Logan and e site for the
monument of Gen. Logan.
The reduction in the public debt dur
ing FEBRUARY will amount to about 50 OOO, 900.
The comparatively small reduction is at
tributed to the heavy pension payments
during the month. ...- - - ~ 'r
Sir Alexander Campbell has been APP
pointed acknowledgements of Ontario,
vice the Hon. John B. Robinson, whose
term of office has expired. "'.'+
Mr.. G.. P. Morosini, the New York
millionaire, denies that his daughter Vic
toria, is at convent near Baltimore under
an assumed name.
The Michigan peninsula encountered
snow storm and gale on the 9th Of terrific
intensity, snow drifting 5 and 10 feet deep
stopping all traffic.
By a slip on an icy sidewalk in New
York Carl Schurz fell and fractured his
hip and Gen. B. F. Butler dislocated his
shoulder.
Gov Wilson, of West Virginia, has
rendered the United States senatorship of
the state to D. B. Lucas of jefferson county.
The Legislature of West Virginia adj
journed without electing United States
Senator and the Governor must appoint one
Saturday evening by a furious gale
two steamboats, at their dock at Louisville,
K. Y, were torn loose, wrecked and sunk.